Round 34 Updates
12th May 2023
Bug Fix
Hideout: Fixed estimated hideout leave time showing the wrong minute.
12th May 2023
Change
Hideout: The max duration is now 3 days (previously 5 days).
12th May 2023
Bug Fix
Help Requests: Fixed display issue when opening a new Help Request.
12th May 2023
Change
Bullet Store: Increased hourly stock by 12.5%.
12th May 2023
Feature
Scratch & Win: The Statistics tab now shows your full card history (previously the last 5 cards only).
12th May 2023
Change
Heists: Chances have been increased by 5 percentage points.
12th May 2023
Change
RPS: Tax on money wagers reduced from 20% to 10%.
12th May 2023
Change
Tax on bullet transactions (Trade Center, Auction House, RPS) has been abolished, limited trade means this control is no longer necessary.
12th May 2023
Change
Trade Limits: The bullet send limit has been reduced from 80,000 post-tax to 50,000.
12th May 2023
Change
Heists: Bank Robbery and Delivery Heist are now combined into a single screen "Heists" in the crime screen. The goal here is to create a single heists platform which allows us to expand heists with new types in future. If you have a more recently registered account, you may have already had this update previously.
12th May 2023
Change
Life Insurance: The 60% policy has been removed and the interface refreshed.
12th May 2023
Feature
Life Insurance: Small Crimes chances are now insured at 50% when you're a Certified Gangster and have a paid policy.
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Bank Job" accolade now requires a total haul of $25mil, $100mil and $400mil (previously required a successful attempt, $7.5mil single haul and $15mil single haul).
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Bomb Defuser" accolade now requires 2, 15 and 50 defusals (previously 1, 10 and 50).
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Heist Master" accolade now requires a total haul of 25k, 100k and 400k Bullets (previously required a successful attempt, 12.5k single haul and 20k single haul).
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Jet Setter" accolade now requires 10, 50 and 250 flights (previously 1 flight, 1 flight using the Priority option and 250 flights).
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Extorter" accolade now requires total extortions of $250k, $2.5mil and $25mil (previously a successful extortion, $100k in a single extortion and $500k in a single extortion).
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Motor Maniac" Bronze accolade now requires 10 vehicle thefts rather than 1.
12th May 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Weekly Contest" accolade now requires you to rank top 10, top 3 and 1st in the Weekly Contest (previously 3rd, 2nd and 1st).
12th May 2023
Feature
Accolades: You now receive "Hustle Coins" each time you earn an accolade. Hustle Coins are non-transferable and can be spent in the Black Market.
16th May 2023
Bug Fix
Garage: Fixed issue where the 10th attempted vehicle tune would progress the "Mechanic" accolade even when the tuning failed.
18th May 2023
Bug Fix
Vehicle Theft: Fixed issue with vehicle value not taking into account perks for the progression of the "Flash Wheels" accolade.
19th May 2023
Feature
Black Market: Your current balance now shows when making purchases.
23rd May 2023
Feature
Armed Robbery: Added "Weapons expenditure" to the Statistics tab.
26th May 2023
Change
Inventory: Insuring an item now makes it non-returnable. This closes a loophole where people would buy random items using Hustle Coins, insure them, rebirth and return the items for Hustle Coins which effectively means their Hustle Coins were insured. This of course goes against the spirit of returning items, which is designed to be a self-service feature to reverse mistakes, and against the spirit of Hustle Coins which are intentionally uninsurable because each rebirth comes with a clean slate of accolades. We can't knock the "hustle" though, clever thinking 😉
27th May 2023
Change
Insurance: RPS bullet balances are now insured as RPS balances, rather than the insured RPS balance being regained as part of your main bullet balance.
1st June 2023
Feature
Respect: The Statistics tab now shows when respect sent is anonymous in the History area.
13th June 2023
Feature
Chat: The chat icon in the bottom navigation (mobile only) now shows a mention counter in red while chat is closed.
14th June 2023
Feature
Auction House: Auctions which contribute towards one of your Trade Limits now have a red bid button.
14th June 2023
Change
Trade Center: When gifting someone with the "Restrict gifts to friends or family" setting enabled, the recipient must accept (or reject) the gift rather than an error being shown.
14th June 2023
Change
Settings: The "Restrict gifts to friends and family" setting has been replaced with "Automatically accept gifts" which gives greater control.
15th June 2023
Feature
Trade Limits: A "receive" limit has been added to bullets. The starting limit is 200,000 per 24 hours, which is designed to help reduce extreme RWT (Real World Trading). From a Trade Center point of view (both gifts and two-way trades), the current limit would have impacted 17 people this round, based on per-day transactions until now. Of those 17 people, most (but not all) have either been proven to be involved in Real World Trading (and are now banned) or are likely to be involved in RWT (but there's insufficient evidence). From an Auction House point of view, the current limit would not have impacted anyone this round. The Auction House bullet supply now mostly comes from the game (stock previously bought from players via the Black Market) and therefore most auctions won't consume your Trade Limit (only those with a red bid button). No players have bought more than 200,000 bullets from player-created auctions in one day this round. From an RPS point of view, the change would have impacted 22 players this round. We have tried our best to minimise the impact on RPS (i.e. creating a separate balance and removing tax so your gameplay lasts longer), however some impact was inevitable and we'll come up with new (RWT safe) opportunities to gamble a few bullets in future.
18th June 2023
Bug Fix
Trade Center: Fixed a bug preventing money gifts from being automatically accepted.
25th June 2023
Bug Fix
Mentoring: Fixed issue where menu timer would not update once mentoring session has been accepted by the recipient.
25th June 2023
Feature
Auction House: You can now search an amount of bullets using the filter function, e.g. enter "100" or "1,000".
25th June 2023
Feature
Overview: Your family name can now be tapped to open your family profile.
26th June 2023
Change
Auction House: When hitting an interaction block, the username of the person who created the auction no longer shows in the error message.
27th June 2023
Feature
Contests: Your own position is now highlighted in green in the participants list.
1st July 2023
Bug Fix
Heists: Fixed order of heists in History section of Statistics tab.
13th July 2023
Feature
Airport: A warning is now shown when you're in a heist in your current city.
18th July 2023
Change
Property: The second of a property's security contract ending is now always random. Previously, a contract held by Butchie would end the same second it began.
20th July 2023
Change
Contests: You will no longer receive an invite alert for the Weekly Contest but a reminder alert still goes out on the morning of the contest starting if you've not already joined. The double alert is no longer necessary since it's possible to join a contest after it's started nowadays.
20th July 2023
Feature
Contests: Posts are made to the Activity Feed when a contest is scheduled, starts or ends.
20th July 2023
Change
Contests: The Double XP contest prizes have changed from 30, 20, 10, 10, 10, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 4 credits to 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 5, 5, 5 and 5 credits. The Weekly Contest prizes have changed from $3,000,000, $2,000,000, $1,000,000, $750,000, $750,000, $500,000, $500,000, $500,000, $500,000 and $500,000 to 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 and 10 Hustle Coins (beginning from the next Weekly Contest).
21st July 2023
Change
Contests: The option to create your own contest has been removed.
21st July 2023
Change
Accolades: The "Weekly Contest" accolade has been renamed to "Contest Winner" and is now awarded for any contest win.
21st July 2023
Feature
Contests: Added daily contests. However, unlike the weekly contest, daily contests can have different goals such as stealing the most vehicles, busting the most inmates or defusing the most bombs.
24th July 2023
Feature
Contests: Added setting to automatically join contests when scheduled.
31st July 2023
Change
Life Insurance: The free policy coverage no longer decreases with inactivity; this is no longer necessary since money has no longer been covered on the free policy since the beginning of Round 34.
15th August 2023
Feature
Slot Machine: Added total bet to the Statistics tab.